Archaeologist Found World’s 2nd Oldest Rock In Odisha & The Story Behind It!

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Million of years ago, when there was no existence of humanity.. one rock was busy in making his future planning and after a million of decades that rock succeeded and get the limelight that it deserved!

Ok! that was the introduction but the actual story of world’s 2nd oldest rock is below and before you start scrolling, let us tell you the most happiest part of the story that it is in our Odisha.

A rock sample recovered nearly eight years ago from Champua in Odisha’s Kendujhar district has put India at the front line of geographical research on the planet. Geologists from the University of Calcutta and Curtin University, Malaysia, alongside analysts from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, made the disclosure, which was distributed a week ago in the diary Scientific Reports.

The only instance of zircon older than this discovery was the one found in Jack Hill, Western Australia, which was 4,400 million years of age and is the oldest known rock sample. Be that as it may, the zircon for this situation was from transformed sedimentary shake, not at all like the Singhbhum one, which was framed from magma.

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The analyses confirmed the presence of two zircon grains that were 4,240 million and 4,030 million years old.

The 4.2 billion-year-old zircon in the rock offers fresh clues about the earth’s origins and not only that Keonjhar has the distinction of containing one of the oldest rocks of the world, approximately 38,000 million years old covering an area of 100 km2 at Asanpat.